ague

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Quotations 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Middle English ague and Old English agu, ague, from Old French and Middle French aguë (fievre), "acute (fever)", from Late Latin (febris) acuta "acute fever", from acutus "sharp, acute" + febris "fever".

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: āʹgyo͞o, IPA: /ˈei.ɡju/

[edit] Noun

ague (plural agues)

1. (obsolete) An acute fever.
   • Brenning agues. —P. Plowman.
2. (pathology) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
3. The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.
4. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
5. A former name for malaria.

[edit] Quotations

• 1810: Lord Byron, "Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos"

  'Twere hard to say who fared the best:
  Sad mortals! thus the Gods still plague you!
  He lost his labour, I my jest:
  For he was drowned, and I've the ague

• 1969: John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, p. 200.

  He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day.

[edit] Translations

• Bulgarian: треска bg(bg)

[edit] Verb

to ague (third-person singular simple present agues, present participle aguing, simple past and past participle agued)

1. (transitive) To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

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[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of aegu
• gaue